Queen Elizabeth II’s state funeral: Order, the timing of events

The lying-in-state ceremony formally ends at Westminster Hall at 9.30 UAE time and the doors close to the public

The painstakingly planned activities during Queen Elizabeth II’s royal funeral on Monday will adhere to a strict schedule (BST time zone).

1. At 6:30 a.m. (9.30 a.m. UAE time), the official lying-in-state ceremony at Westminster Hall comes to a conclusion, and the doors are closed to the public in preparation for the transport of her body to the adjacent Westminster Abbey.

2. To 8:00 a.m., doors at Westminster Abbey open to about 2,000 visitors, including international dignitaries like US Vice President Joe Biden and the secretive Emperor Naruhito of Japan.

3. Around 10:35 a.m., pallbearers hoist the queen’s coffin from the catafalque, a raised platform where it has been laid in state, and bring it to the state gun carriage that is waiting outside Westminster Hall’s North Door.

4. At 10:44 a.m., the state gun carriage, hauled by 142 junior enlisted sailors in the Royal Navy, embarks on a brief parade from Westminster Hall to Westminster Abbey.

5. King Charles III, the eldest son and heir of the queen, and other royals arrive at Westminster Abbey’s West Gate in a gun carriage at 10:52 a.m.

The coffin is lifted off and carried into the abbey by bearers.

6. The state funeral begins at 11:00 a.m. with the sermon being delivered by Justin Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury, under the direction of David Hoyle, the Dean of Westminster.

7. The Last Post bugle call is played at around 11:55 a.m., followed by a two-minute national moment of silence.

8. A lament, a musical expression of loss, and the national song “God Save the King” (about) complete the ceremony.

9. Around Hyde Park Corner, close to Buckingham Palace, at 12:15 p.m., the coffin is drawn on the gun carriage in the direction of Wellington Arch.

The king, senior royals, and a parade that includes military units from the Commonwealth, an alliance of 56 countries that the queen led, follow it.

At minute intervals throughout, the UK parliament’s “Big Ben” bell and gun salutes fire.

10. Around 1:00 p.m., the coffin arrives at Wellington Arch, is transferred to the royal hearse, and is driven west of London to Windsor Castle.

11. The hearse arrives in Windsor at 3:06 p.m. and travels up the grand Long Walk avenue to the castle.

12. The king and senior royals begin to walk in the procession from the Quadrangle at Windsor Castle at 3:40 pm, and at 3.53 pm, the cortege stops at St. George’s Chapel.

13. The televised committal service begins at 4:00 p.m. with the presence of royals, prime ministers, and previous and present members of the queen’s household.

The casket is lowered into the royal crypt to a lone piper’s lament after around 45 minutes.

14. 7:30 p.m. – A private burial service is performed in the King George VI Memorial Chapel, where the queen is interred next to the ashes of her younger sister, Princess Margaret, and her parents, King George VI and Queen Elizabeth.

At the same time, her late husband Prince Philip will be buried there as well.